How to Use sluggish in a Sentence

sluggish

adjective

• The game picked up after a sluggish start.
• The Stars shook off a sluggish start to handle the Panthers 5-1.
  — Stefan Stevenson, Dallas News, 8 Jan. 2023
• The Latitude 7030 found itself in the front half of a rather sluggish pack.
  — PCMAG, 27 Mar. 2024
• After a sluggish start to the season, the Nuggets have won seven games in a row and 17 of their past 20 games.
  — Nick Hennion, Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2023
• Green is far from blameless for the sluggish pace numbers.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 7 Jan. 2023
• Only on the way home did my thoughts begin to feel sluggish, like a fog was rolling across my brain.
  — Tove Danovich, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2023
• No one likes to go to a restaurant and endure sluggish service.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2023
• Beaverton coach Kathy Naro isn’t worried about the sluggish start.
  — oregonlive, 5 Jan. 2023
• One of the market's hottest sectors is having a sluggish start to back-to-school season.
  — WSJ, 5 Sep. 2023
• There have been times this season when the Golden State Warriors have gotten off to sluggish starts on the road.
  — C.j. Holmes, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Jan. 2023
• No point in saving money by not splashing out on an iMac if the thing is sluggish or half-hearted.
  — David Phelan, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• North of the village of Hughes, in frigid, sluggish water, dim blue light penetrates 2 feet of lake ice.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Jan. 2023
• Most economists expect growth to remain sluggish in the first quarter of 2023 before picking up over the rest of the year.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 18 Jan. 2023
• Our sluggish progress is impacting billions of people around the world.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
• Bean threw for 276 yards and a pair of touchdowns, helping KU push through a sluggish start and soundly defeat Missouri State.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2023
• The Bruins were sluggish from the first puck drop, never held a lead, and time and time again played pylons to the familiar Hurricanes track meet.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Jan. 2023
• In short, milk thistle has a detox function, which is great if your digestion is sluggish.
  — Valentina Bottoni, Vogue, 23 Mar. 2024
• Day-to-day performance is just a little more sluggish, and that’s only going to degrade over the next three or more years.
  — Brandon Widder, The Verge, 1 Apr. 2023
• The housing market is tight and new construction is sluggish.
  — Jake Zuckerman, cleveland, 6 Jan. 2023
• The biggest growth was in construction, which added 1,800 jobs after a sluggish summer.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2023
• The major stock indexes kicked off the year with sluggish performance but began to turn upward in the middle of last week.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 22 Jan. 2024
• And the Korean theatrical market, until 2019 the fourth largest in the world, remains sluggish.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 12 Mar. 2023
• Drop shotting is rooted in the bass world, and the technique was developed to fool pressured fish and sluggish fish in colder water.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 9 Jan. 2023
• Like the sluggish motion of a snail, my interest in these garden mollusks grew slowly.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2023
• Boston College won its last two games as the team continued to recovery for a sluggish 1-3 start.
  — Chantz Martin, Fox News, 21 Oct. 2023
• In the past few years, things in this old-timey town at the base of the Wasatches got off to a sluggish start, with acquisitions deals and even bidding wars taking place toward the end of the fest’s ten-day run.
  — Vulture, 20 Jan. 2023
• Despite the team’s sluggish start on the attack, Asprilla sparked the Timbers with his effort and creativity along the right side.
  — oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2023
• Following the team’s victory on Sunday, Mulkey denied the team’s sluggish first half came as a result of the team being distracted from the off-the-court noise.
  — Ben Morse, CNN, 25 Mar. 2024
• Most economists expect the country’s GDP to rebound in the second quarter of 2023 after a sluggish start.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 10 Jan. 2023
• Still, consumers are likely reining in their spending in the final three months of the year, and the sluggish housing market is dragging on the economy as well.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024